temptations without controls, the chemistry for crime, delivering crime to your

doorstep, and out-of-sync youth in chapters 2-5. In this paper I am going to

summarize and critique each chapter.

Felson titled chapter 2 Temptations Without Controls. Throughout the

chapter Felson shows how crime thrives on temptations without controls. He

shows how these words refer to the immediate environment as it provides the

roots for crime. He goes on to say that even crime's deeper roots from the past

must accomplish the physical delivery of temptations without controls. In order

to find out which of these two forces has the upper hand in any given setting or

in society as a whole, Felson says that we need to study particular crime types

and the settings that generate them, including workplaces, schools, recreation

areas, residential streets, and transport systems.

There were some things that stuck out of chapter 2. Travis Hirschi's

presentation of crime as not asking, "Why did such a terrible person do that

awful thing?', but instead, "Why doesn't everybody engage in crime?". Hirschi

argues that crime needs no special motivat

modernizes, more people are brought into daily contact. That contributes to

Felson writes that youths had plenty of useful work to absorb their time and

our best proof that crime has important physical requirements can be found in

act on their own, with may tempting goods at hand. A good point Felson makes

perspective makes sense and is a very interesting concept, but to me his

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